Armenian culture marks major events such as birth and death with a special period of 40 days, called ‘karasunk,’ as…
Many migrants find community in evangelical churches in the U.S. – part of wider shifts in the country’s religious landscape.
Belief in science and belief in magic can coexist.
St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy is one of many cases in which religious schools have challenged the wall between church…
There is no single way to tell the story of the ‘Ramayana.’ People from different religious traditions and cultural…
Many Americans have decried today’s politics as ‘shameless.’ The antidote, a political philosopher argues, may be…
From the printing press to smartphone apps, technology has continually transformed the experience of sacred journeys. A…
Bakker’s ‘PTL Club’ existed at the nexus of evangelical Christianity and American pop culture.
The ‘Book of Prophecies’ shows how Columbus recast brutal colonization as a divine mission.
A formation known as Durupınar, just a few miles from the Iranian border in Turkey, has been associated with Noah’s Ark…
Popes have bestowed golden roses on warriors, rulers, women – and, increasingly in recent decades, shrines.
When the Supreme Court hears arguments in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, Colorado will defend antidiscrimination laws…
For many people, Jewish American history is synonymous with northern cities like New York and Chicago. But the South played…
‘Brahmacharya’ is a monastic discipline centered on controlling the senses and directing attention toward spiritual…
Human beings have always turned to oracles and divination for answers to difficult questions. Today, AI might be fulfilling…
A new application for a religious charter school is stirring up far-reaching questions about the constitutionality of public…
The forged document was used as leverage to try to expand papal control throughout the Italian peninsula.
AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes…
A central theme of the High Holidays – and Judaism itself – is that to do right by God, people must first do right by…
A political philosopher explains the ethical arguments in favor of free movement.